Filmmaker:
Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Sandi is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. His current project,
Trembling Before G-d is a USA/France/Israel co-production.
Email Sandi

David is an Orthodox gay man who tried to change his homosexuality
for more than a decade. David travels to meet the first person he
came out to 20 years ago, a Chabad rabbi, to confront him with the
dilemma of his therapy and sexuality.Email David

Michelle, a lesbian who grew up Hasidic in Boro Park, Brooklyn. This
is from Michelle's wedding.Email Michelle

"Devorah," an ultra-Orthodox lesbian in Israel, who is falling apart
after being married for nearly 20 years and having many children and
grandchildren.

Son of an Orthodox rabbi, Mark was kicked out of numerous yeshivas
in England and Israel for homosexual activity and had abandoned Orthodoxy.
He is followed on his return to the yeshiva world and his re-embrace
of the Orthdox practice he missed and loved.

Israel takes on a healing and preaching role in the "Big Knish Tours"
he leads through Brooklyn's Hasidic neighborhoods of Boro Park and
Williamsburg to help him come to terms with his flight from a difficult
childhood there. He has not see his father for over twenty years.Email Israel

"Malka" and "Leah," who became high-school sweethearts in Brooklyn's
Bais Yaakov, an ultra-Orthodox girl's school. They will soon be celebrating
their 12th anniversary.Email Malka and Leah

The film also interviews a number of ultra-Orthodox and modern Orthodox
rabbis in Israel, New York, and Los Angeles - including the first
openly gay Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Steve Greenberg. Rabbi Greenberg
is finishing a book Of Wrestling with God and Men.

Shlomo Ashkinazy, psychotherapist. Shlomo has run a confidential support
group for Orthodox gay men for over 15 years.